Smectic- C tilt under shear in smectic- A elastomers

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Stenull, Olaf ^a   Lubensky, T C ^a   Adams, J M ^b   Warner, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMERS; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLASTICS; POLYMERS; RUBBER; SHEAR STRAIN;

E PRINTS; IN-PLANE; MODEL PARAMETERS; SHEAR GEOMETRY; SIMPLE SHEAR; SMECTIC ELASTOMERS; SMECTIC-A; SMECTIC-C; TILT ANGLES;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 49549096466     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021705     Document Type: Article

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